Book Club Event with Author Wendy Erskine | Discussing The Benefactors

In Collaboration with Essex Book FestivalBook Club / Author event with Wendy Erskine discussing THE BENEFACTORS with Appetite Book Club membersThis event is held offsite at a wheelchair accessible venueLONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTIONMeet Frankie, Miriam and Bronagh: three very different women from Belfast, but all mothers to eighteen-year-old boys.

Gorgeous Frankie, now married to a wealthy, older man, grew up in care.

Miriam has recently lost her beloved husband Kahlil in ambiguous circumstances.Bronagh, the CEO of a children’s services charity, loves celebrity and prestige.

When their sons are accused of sexually assaulting a friend, Misty Johnston, they’ll come together to protect their children, leveraging all the powers they possess.

But on her side, Misty has the formidable matriarch, Nan D, and her father, taxi-driver Boogie: an alliance not so easily dismissed.Brutal, tender and rigorously intelligent, The Benefactors is a daring, multi-voice presentation of modern-day Northern Ireland.